I DON'T WANT TO KNOW

GLADYS KNIGHT

SONGWRITER: KENNETH EDMONDS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: JUST FOR YOU

LABEL: MCA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1994

Gladys Maria Knight(born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and author. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight is known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins Edward Patten and William Guest.

Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles ("Midnight Train to Georgia" and "That's What Friends Are For"), eleven number-one R&B singles, and six number-one R&B albums. She has won seven Grammy Awards (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips) and is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with The Pips. She also recorded the theme song for the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. Knight is also listed as one of Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

In 1996, Gladys Knight & the Pips were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One year before, Knight had received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2007, Knight received the Society of Singers ELLA Award at which time she was declared the "Empress of Soul". She is listed on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Singers of All Time.

I've heard it all before

A love is a two way street

You have to give something to this relationship

I'm all out of understanding

It's always something with you

And all I've got to say is

Gave you the best, best years of my life and I

Gave you a woman who stood by your side

Through all your ups and downs

Your rights and all your wrongs

And God knows there were wrongs

I should've been long gone, but when I

Made you that promise for better or worse I said I'd

Stand by your side, I swallowed my pride

And now you're asking me to understand

And I'm telling you I can't

Why should I care about your feelings

When you don't give a damn about mine

Well, I don't want to know

I couldn't care less about your feelings

Don't you know

You should've cared more about mine

And I don't want to know

It really doesn't matter why you're leavin'

You should know

You're really throwin' away your life

And I won't sympathize

You've hurt me for the last time

Got no more tears left to cry

Baby, gave you three hearts

One boy and one girl and a

A woman who loves you

We're sittin' here falling apart

All through your ins and outs

Your fears and all your doubts

God knows there been doubts

But we've given you a home, and you're just

Throwing it away baby

All for some girl born yesterday

And what about your children

There is nothing to explain

But still you're asking us to understand

Well I'm telling you we can't

Why should we care about your reasons

When you're walking right out of our lives

And I don't want to know

I couldn't care less about your feelings

Don't you know

You should've cared more about mine

And I don't want to know

It really doesn't matter why you're leavin'

You should know

You're really throwin' away your life

And I won't sympathize

You've hurt me for the last time

Got no more tears left to cry

Say goodbye to all the love and memories

One last time, one good look at all the love

That won't be in your life

Say goodbye I hope that you'll be happy

Don't look back, 'cause it'll be too late

I've gone on with my life

And I don't want to know

I couldn't care less about your feelings

Oh, don't you know

You should've cared more about mine

And I don't want to know

It really doesn't matter why you're leavin'

You, you should know

You're really throwin' away your life

And I won't, I won't, I won't sympathize

You've hurt me, hurt me, hurt me for the last time

Got no tears left to cry, no no.

CARELESS WHISPER

GEORGE MICHAEL

SONGWRITER: MICHAEL GEORGE & RIDGELEY ANDREW J

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CARELESS WHISPER

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

GENRE: BALLAD

YEAR: 1984

Co-written and produced by George Michael, 'Careless Whispers' was released by Wham! on their album 'Make It Big'. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley wrote it together when they were 17 years old.

George Michael explained in his autobiography, Bare, "With 'Careless Whisper' I remember exactly where it first came to me, where I came up with the sax line... I remember I was handing the money over to the guy on the bus and I got this line, the sax line..."

The song was inspired by the George Michael's relationships with two girls: Helen and Jane.

George Michael(born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He achieved seven number one songs on the UK Singles Chart and eight number one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100. He was widely known for his success in the 1980s and 1990s, including Wham! singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas" and solo singles such as "Careless Whisper" and "Faith".

Michael formed the duo Wham! With Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. The band's first two albums, Fantastic(1983) and Make It Big(1984), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. Michael's first solo single "Careless Whisper" reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US. Michael's debut solo album, Faith, was released in 1987, topping the UK Albums Chart and staying at number one on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks. Four singles from the album--"Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", and "Monkey"--reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Faith was named Album of the Year at the 31st Grammy Awards. Three years after the release of Faith, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1(1990) was released; that album included the Billboard Hot 100 number one "Praying for Time". "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", a 1991 duet with Elton John, was also a transatlantic number one.

Michael won various music awards including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards and six Ivor Novello Awards. In 2004, the Radio Academy named Michael the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. In 2008, he was ranked 40th on Billboard's list of the Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time.

I feel so unsure

As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor

As the music dies something in your eyes

Calls to mind a silver screen and all its sad goodbyes

I'm never gonna dance again

Guilty feet have got no rhythm

Though it's easy to pretend

I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend

And waste a chance that I'd been given

So I'm never gonna dance again

The way I danced with you

Time can never mend

The careless whispers of a good friend

To the heart and mind ignorance is kind

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is that all you'll find

I'm never gonna dance again

Guilty feet have got no rhythm

Though it's easy to pretend

I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend

And waste a chance that I'd been given

So I'm never gonna dance again

The way I danced with you

With or without your love

Tonight the music seems so loud

I wish that we could lose this crowd

Maybe it's better this way

We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say

We could have been so good together

We could have lived this dance forever

But now, who's gonna dance with me?

Please stay

I'm never gonna dance again

Guilty feet have got no rhythm

Though it's easy to pretend

I know you're not a fool

I should have known better than to cheat a friend

And waste a chance that I'd been given

So I'm never gonna dance again

The way I danced with you

(Now that you're gone)

Now that you're gone

(Now that you're gone)

Was what I did so wrong?

So wrong that you that you had to leave me alone?

YOU SANG TO ME

MARC ANTHONY

SONGWRITERS: COREY ROONEY & MARC ANTHONY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MARC ANTHONY

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2000

Marco Antonio Muñiz(born September 16, 1968), better known by his stage name Marc Anthony, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record executive, television producer and philanthropist. Anthony is also the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy Award and six-time Latin Grammy Award winner has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. Known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads, Anthony has won numerous awards and his achievements have been honored through various recognitions. He was the recipient of the 2009 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute(CHCI) Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received the "2009 CHCI Chair's Lifetime Achievement Award" on September 16, 2009. He holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling tropical/salsa artist and the most number-one albums on the Billboard Tropical Albums year-end charts.

"You Sang to Me" is a 2000 hit song by Marc Anthony, and was released as the third single of his first English language album Marc Anthony.

The song was written and produced by Marc Anthony and Cory Rooney, and like the previous English single from Marc Anthony also a Spanish version was recorded, but wasn't included on the first edition of the album. Both versions of the track were very successful in the United States. The English version peaked at even higher than "I Need to Know", climbing to number 2 in the Billboard Hot 100, kept off from the top slot by "Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B. It also spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. The Spanish version ("Muy Dentro de Mi") hit No. 1 on the Hot Latin Tracks chart for 3 consecutive weeks. According to Anthony, he wrote this song for his then-friend Jennifer Lopez, whom he married soon after. This version was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year, losing to "A Puro Dolor" by Son by Four.

The English-language version of the track received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, the second year in a row for Marc Anthony, losing once again to Sting with "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)", a collaboration for the album A Love Affair: The music of Ivan Lins.

"You Sang to Me" was included on the compilation album pLATINum rhythm, released on October 30, 2001 by Maverick Música. It is also included on the movie soundtrack for the 1999 hit movie Runaway Bride, winning an ASCAP award in the field "Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures" for this collaboration.

I just wanted you to comfort me

When I called you late last night you see

I was falling into love

Yes I was crashing into love

Of all the words you said to me

About Life, The Truth, and Being Free

Yeah you sang to me

Oh how you sang to me

Girl I live for how you make me feel

So I question all this being real

Cause I'm not afraid of love

For the first time I'm not afraid to love

This day seems made for you and me

And you showed me what life needs to be

Yeah you sang to me

Oh you sang to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it in your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

Just to think you live inside of me

I had no idea how this could be

Now I'm crazy for your love

Can't believe I'm crazy for your love

The words you said just sang to me

And you showed me where I wanna be

You sang to me

Oh you sang to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me.

WOMAN TO WOMAN

SHIRLEY BROWN

SONGWRITERS: HOMER BANKS; EDDIE MARION & HENDERSON THIGPEN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WOMAN TO WOMAN

LABEL: STAX

GENRE: CLASSIC SOUL

YEAR: 1974

Shirley Brown(born January 6, 1947, West Memphis, Arkansas) is an American R&B singer, best known for her million-selling single "Woman to Woman", which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975.

Brown was born in West Memphis, but was raised in Madison, Illinois, where she started singing in church at the age of nine. Early experience singing gospel gave her a powerful but expressive voice likened to that of Aretha Franklin. Albert King discovered her when she was aged 14, singing in the Harlem Club in Brooklyn, Illinois. Young Shirley went on the road with King for nine years. While King made sure she had a tutor, Brown often cut her classes to work with the band.

By 1972, Shirley was living in East St. Louis, Illinois, where she made her first record for the Abet label called, "I Ain't Gonna Tell" and "Love Built on a Strong Foundation". Bandleader Oliver Sain produced the record; Sain worked with King on his first hit record ten years earlier. By 1974, King recommended Brown to Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been one of the label's stars for some time.

Her 1974 hit, "Woman to Woman" spent two weeks at #1 in the Billboard R&B chart and climbed to #22 in the Billboard Hot 100. It sold over one million copies by December 1974, and was awarded a gold disc. It was to prove to be Stax's final major hit record (the song was later covered by Barbara Mandrell in 1978 and became a top-five country hit).

A moderately successful debut album, Woman to Woman, was released by Stax on their Truth label, but by 1975, the company was struggling financially and also facing litigation. A follow-up single, "It Ain't No Fun" was only a moderate success, and Stax closed soon afterwards.

Her signing to Arista Records in 1977 resulted in the album Shirley Brown, produced by the former Stax owner Jim Stewart and writer-producer Bettye Crutcher, who provided most of the songs. These included "Blessed Is The Woman" which reached #14 R&B (#102 pop).

Brown continued to record for several labels since then, including Fantasy, on the re-formed Stax label, and Sound Town. She has been with the Mississippi based blues label, Malaco Records since 1989. She remains a popular live performer, mainly in southern states of the US, without having found the recording success of her earlier years.

"Woman to Woman" is the title of a 1974 deep soul single recorded by Shirley Brown for whom it was a #1 R&B hit.

The song was written by James Banks, Eddie Marion and Henderson Thigpen, who had previously written hits for Little Milton, the Bar-Kays and other Stax Records artists. According to Thigpen, he and Banks were brainstorming ideas for songs at Stax Studio (quote:)"trying to come up with...something different. When people get serious, they say: 'Hey, let's talk man to man'...We thought it would be interesting to have a song with somebody coming up [with]: 'Hey, let's talk woman to woman'." Thigpen had recently overheard his wife on the phone arguing with a friend about an involved couple of their acquaintance, and - with Eddie Marion - Thigpen and Banks completed their "Woman to Woman" song structuring it as a phone call from a wife to her husband's mistress.

"Woman to Woman" was first offered to Inez Foxx, then signed to Stax's Volt label, who turned it down because - according to Banks - she didn't want to do the spoken intro, feeling that format could only work for a male singer. Around this time Shirley Brown was introduced to Stax president Jim Stewart by Albert King in whose live revue she'd performed while a teenager: Stewart was impressed enough by Brown to himself produce her Stax debut recording - Stewart's first production task in two years - of "Woman to Woman" (Stewart co-produced the track with Al Jackson Jr.) with Brown cutting her vocal in a single take. Brown would state in a 1975 interview (quote:)"The guys who wrote ['Woman to Woman'] sang it through to me and I felt it needed a rap to begin it, so I wrote one off the top of my head"; however the song's co-writer James Banks has stated that the spoken intro was part of the song when it was offered to Inez Foxx, whose dislike of the "rap" caused her to turn the song down.

Reportedly selling a million units in its first eight weeks of release, "Woman to Woman" spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Hot Soul Singles chart in November 1974 and crossed-over to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking there at #22. The song is notable for being the last big hit for Stax Records.

[Shirley Brown]

Hello, may I speak to Barbara

Barbara, this is Shirley

You might not know who I am

But the reason I am calling you is because

I was going through my

Old man's pockets this morning

And I just happened to find your name and number

So woman to woman

I don't think it's being anymore than fair

To call you and let you know

Where I'm coming from

Now Barbara

I don't know how you're gonna take this

But whether you be cool

Or come out of a bag on me

You see it doesn't really make any difference

But it's only fair that I let you know that

The man you're in love with

He's mine

From the top of his head

To the bottom of his feet

The bed he sleeps in

And every piece of food he eats

You see, I make it possible

The clothes on his back

Ha ha, I buy them

The car he drives

I pay the note every month

So I'm telling you these things

To let you know how much I love that man

And woman to woman

I think you'll understand

How much I'll do to keep him

Woman to woman

If you've ever been in love

Then you know how I feel

And woman to woman

Now, if you were in my shoes

Wouldn't you have done the same thing too

Oh, oh, woman to woman

Can't you see where I'm coming from

Woman to woman

Ain't that the same thing you would've done

Woman to woman

Now should I just step aside

And let her take what's rightfully mine

Oh, oh, woman to woman

Was I right or was I wrong

I ain't gonna let you break up my happy home

Now woman to woman

Now you see I don't want no trouble now

I hope you understand

I love that man and he's mine

I'm talking to you

Woman to woman

You should be woman enough to understand

That man, I love that man

Woman, woman

Woman to woman, he's mine

And I ain't gonna give him up

My baby, I ain't lying, now.